New year new you. It’s worth a go. I don’t totally subscribe to New Year’s resolutions but, after feeling non-optimal healthwise for a while, a few things inspired me to go temporarily gluten-free. I watched an interesting documentary called ‘What’s Read more…
Edinburgh, it turns out has a secret rooftop terrace at the National Museum of Scotland. In my opinion, it’s by far the best part, although I am totally biased. It was a fresh afternoon and the icy breeze hit my Read more…
Robin Wall Kimmerer has inspired my soul to remember a very important foraging rule and way of life, that somehow I had forgotten. It’s integral that you read this before you forage. Robin is a Professor and Director, at the Read more…
After a scroll through Etsy, I came across a botanically focused plant zine. (Zine – is defined as from the Freedictionary.com “being an inexpensively produced, self-published, underground publication”.) Being a lover of great illustration, especially plant-centric, I was instantly attracted Read more…
Ok, so after a few rounds of really frosty days in Scotland, I was starting to think. “Well, that’s it then, for the year. It’s too cold and dark to go out and if I did, there wouldn’t be anything Read more…
I really enjoy drawing plants. It means I have to sit still and really observe a plant. When I do this, I find out so much more about it. I can see the close up hairs, serrations, veins, bracts all Read more…
This post is a little different in that I’m talking about Women in business and how they deal with their money blocks. But what is a money block? Let me explain… I’ve been following Denise Duffield-Thomas over the last 6 Read more…
I’ve had my eye on this plant for a couple of years now. It was so unusual looking, I just had to know what it was. Then… someone told me it was Stag’s horn Sumach. Rhus typhina I had eaten this Read more…
Impatiens grandiflora As we walked in the sunshine on our foraging walk on Saturday, we found some Himalayan balsam. We stopped and nibbled on the seeds and admired the beauty of the flower. It is not admired in the same Read more…